Machine for making cut-out wall-paper.



w. F. MARRESFORD. MACHINE'FOR MAKING CUT-OUT WALL PAPER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-l0, 1912. 1,223,692

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

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MACHINE FOR MAKING CUT-OUT WALL PAPER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-l0, 1912.

Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

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Specification of Letters Fatent.

Patented Apr. 24, 115%? Application filed August 10,1912. Serial No. 714,432.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. Marl ns- FORD, a citizen of the United States, residlng at Brooklyn, in 'the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Cut-Out Wall-Paper, of whlch the followlng is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a machine for making cutout wall paper, such as borders, friezes, crowns, binders, rosettes, corners, etc., which are applied to walls in conjunction with the body finish for the purpose of increased decoratlon. These cutouts are largely used at the present time for decorating purposes and, as heretofore made and sold to the tra e, have been printed, dried, out and then wound in rolls with a filling paper, ready for use. When used by the paper hanger the filling paper is thrown awa The object of the present invention is to comb' e a web cuttmg apparatus with a web printing machine in such manner that a design of line perforations or cuts will be formed on the web immediately before it enters the printing machine and in exact synchronism with the design to be printed, so that the printed cutout can be wound in rolls or subsequently treated like ordinary printed wall paper without any filling paper and separated by the paper hanger at the work by tearing the uncut portions, leaving the cutout design with clean and sharp edges requiring no further trimming or cutting before being ut up.

This inventlon is distinguished from prior machines for other purposes which sever the web with a continuous cut, in that a succession of intermittent cuts. are made along the edge of the portion to be decorated, so that in subsequent treatment, such as printin and drying, the unitary character of the we can be retained. The use of numerous elongated knives for cutting the decorative design in a web before prmting, as compared with perforating pins which simply displace and upset the surface of the material after printing is an important feature of this invention. A needle raises a bur on the paper, which tends to cause trouble in the printing machine because of theuneven surface, and also necessitates a very great number of holes, whereas I have found that a paper web can be cut without objectionable burs by a succession of edged knives in any desired desi and then subsequently printed or otherwlse treated during the same operation, before the waste part is completely separated, without warping or displacing the cuts and the design The invention, with reference to its details and advantages, will be more'fully understood in connection with the accompanyin drawings, wherein- I igure 1 1s an elevation of a portion of a multicolor printin machine having the cutting apparatus 0 this invention combined therewith; and

Figs. 2 to 6, inclusive, show details of the cutting mechanism.

1 represents a portion of the frame of a multicolor web printing machine having the printing roller 2, and color rolls 3, 3, all of which are constructed in a well understood manner so that each roll 3 prints a different color and all are driven in synchronism with the roll 2 by means of a large gear 4 meshing with driving gears on the shafts of rolls 3, and with driving gear 5. 6, 6, 6 are idler rolls over which the web 7 runs and 8, 8 are tension rolls or bars. 9 represents an auxiliary frame for the cutting mechanism which is herein shown as attached to an extension of the main frame 1, but which may be otherwisesupported, if desired. 10 is a counter or resilient surface 11 between which and the cutting roller 12 the web 7 runs, and is at the same time fed thereby. In order to Iproperly effect the cutting of the web, it will e seen that the web is bent around the platen, so that it is under tension and at the same time flattened and firmly held on the yielding platen surface while in contact with the kmfe plus.

The counter or platen roll 10 and the cutting roll 12 are provided with intermeshing gears 13, 14, the latter meshing with gear 15 which gears with gear 5 above described, so that the cutting roller 12 and the counter platen roller provided with a v roll roller 10 will be positively driven in exact synchronism with the printing rolls 3, and each other, so that the web is simultaneously fed and out .exactly in synchronism with the printing design rolls 3;

The platen or counter roller 10 is provided with a shaft 16 which is carried by levers 17 journaled at one end 18 in the auxiliary frame 9 and having at the opposite end 19 a link 20 pivoted at 21 to a lever 22 journaled at 23 on the frame 9. By pressing down onlever 22 the counter rol er 10 will be lifted from engagement with the cutting roller 12. To control the contact between the resilient surface 11 of counter roller 10 and the cutting roller 12, a set screw stop 24.- is pro'vided which can be adjusted up or down to support the short end of lever 22. When it is desired to removev the cutting mechanism, a hook 25 on chain 26 is engaged with a transverse bar 27 connecting the lower ends of side frames 9, thereby lifting the counter platen clear of. the cutting means. The platen roller-10 is preferably made wider than the web, so that it can be shifted on the shaft to change the cutting surface, and it is also driven by an uneven gear, SO that it will not coincide with the design, thereby prolonging the life of the resilient covering.

The movable frame 28 consists of two side frames connected by a tie rod 34: and each pivoted at 29 on the shaft of the gear 5, thus permitting the cutting roller 12 to be swung toward and from the platen roller 10 without changing the meshing of gears 5, 14:, 15. The bearings of roller 12 are thus adjustable toward and from the platen, to allow for various sizes of platen rollers. The intermediate idler gear 15 is carried on a shaft 30 which is adjustable in a slot 31 of the swinging side frame 28, so that when cutting roll 12 is changed in diameter, gear 14 will be likewise changed to correspond, and still be driven synchronously with the printing rollers 3.

Inasmuch as color printing machines are arranged so that various diameters of print- :ing rolls are to be used according to the patterns to be printed, it is desirable in the OPBIiLfiOnxOfthlS machine that the cutting be of the same circumference as the printing rolls, which is provided for by first adjusting the frames 28 relatively to frame 9 by pins 32. passed through holes 33, the holes 33 being spaced in accordance with standard circumferences of cutting rolls, which latter will be made in circumferences corresponding to the standard diameters 'of printing rolls3, or multiples thereof if a pattern 1s repeated. The cutting roller 12 is preferably mounted in open bearings so. that upon lifting the counter roller 10, it can be lifted in and out, it being aged in driving.

The particular construction of cutting means is not described and claimed in this application but in a-divisional application filed August 11,1913, Serial No. 7 84:,07 8.

As preferred by me, the periphery of roll 12 is made of wood, and V-edged spaced knife pins are driven therein in accordance with the design or designs to be cut. It will be seen that several designs on a single web may be cut and printed at one operation where desired.

Fig. 2 shows the details of the knife roll 12. It comprises a body or center of suitable material with a periphery 35 of wood or other material into which the knife pins can be driven. These knife pins are similar to wire nails, except that instead of having driving heads knife edged heads 37, preferably pointed as shown, but cutting an elongated slit by severing the fibers, as distinguished both from a needle point which merely perforates and displaces the fibers, and a punch which cuts holes and removes the material. Below the flattened blade portion driving shoulders are formed on the shanks 36 so that the cutting edges 38 will. not be dam- The flattened blade portion 37 is ofless thickness than the shank portion 36, and the designs 39 and 40 are formed on the surface of roller 12 in Fig. 2 by driving into the surface the requisite number of knives to form the outline to be cut in the paper. These knife edges will all be set to lie on the same circumference. In order to make sharp curves, indentations, etc., in the line of cuts or slits, to form angles etc., the shanks 36 are preferably ma e round n cross section so that they can they are provided with be turned or angularlyadjusted after hav- I ing been driven in the roller, and the sides of the fiat portions preferably taper toward the base so that the knife pins can be set on 'radii of the roller 12. This also enables the knife pins to be initially set with a slight space between them as shown in Fig.

4, andsubsequently to be driven farther in without displacement, as may be necessary when the printing rollers are re-surfaced, and therefore made of smaller diameter.

It is to be observed that the cut designs on theweb will bear a predetermined relation to the printed designs, which will work out in practice, .because there is no opportunity for stretching of the web between the time it is cut and the-time it is printed, it being well known that even slight dampening ofa web causes it to stretch and warp and renders it necessary that the cutting and printin devices be very closely disposed relative y to each other and that they operate as nearly simultaneously as possible.

It is, therefore, more advantageous to cut 7 the web before it is printed than after, be-

cuts by tearlng, smoothly when cause after the web is printed, especially Where a number of colors are printed, it becomes damp and liable to stretch, and the amount of stretch varies with the partic ular web in many instances so that exact registering is more easily obtained by the specific arrangements of the parts. herein shown. When dampened by paste, the design is readily separated alongthe line of and the paper cuts more dry. Moreover, it will be observed that the cutting devices act on the face of the web, so that any roughened edges will appear on the back, thereby not affecting the lay of-the color.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that by the present invention, it is for the first time practicable, so far as I am aware, in the wall paper art to commercially produce at one operation cutouts in widely varying patterns which will register exactly with the printed patterns and which can be sold to the trade in rolls like ordinary wall paper, whereby the cost of filling paper is saved and also the loss of time and expense involved in the present methods of producingcutouts in the factory both in the production of cuttting dies and in the actual work of cutting the paper.

By this invention much more ornamental and elaborate shelf papers can be produced than those now on the market, which can be cut, printed and wound in rolls like wall paper instead of being cut by dies and sold fiat, as is nowcommon practice.

Various modifications and changes in the specific devices herein described for producing the cutout, and in the cutout itself, may be made without departing from the scope of the invention. Having thus described my invention, I declare that what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a machine for decorating a web of paper or similar material, the combination with a rotary cylinder printing machine having at least one design printing cylinder, of a web cutting means arranged to approximately simultaneously cut a design in predetermined'relation to the design printing cylinder, a platen also driven synchronously with said cutting means and said printing cylinder to feed the web-to said printing machine, said cutting means being mounted to be moved toward and from said platen and said platen being mounted to move toward and from said cutting means.

2. The combination with a decorative design web printing roller, of a cutting roller driven in synchronism with said printing roller and having on its periphery a succession of separate cutting knife edges to form sign printed by said printed by said a separable line of slits in the web corresponding to the design approximately simultaneously printed by said printing roller.

3. Thecombination with a decorative design web printing roller, of a cutting roller driven in synchronism with said printing roller and having on its periphery a succession of separate individually adjustable knife edges to form a separable line of slits inthe web corresponding to the design approximately simultaneously printed by said printing roller.

4. In wall paper manufacture, and in combination with means for continuously applying a design to a web, means immediately adjacent and synchronized with said design applying means for approximately simultaneously and continuously effecting in the web a close linear succession of slits outlining said' design in fixed relation thereto, whereby said web is capable of further handling as an entirety and the design bearing portion rendered separable by tearing the portions between successive slits.

5. The combination with adecorative design printing roller, of a cutting roller driven in synchronism with said printing roller and having on its periphery a succession of separate cutting knife edges to approximately simultaneously form a line of cuts in the web corresponding to the design printed by said printing roller, and a platen driven synchronously with said cutting roller to support and feed the web as said knife edges successively cut the design.

6. The combination with a decorative design printing roller, of a cutting roller driven in synchronism with said printing roller and having on its periphery a succession of separate cutting knife edges to approximately simultaneously form a line of cuts in the web corresponding to'the deprinting roller, and a platen driven synchronously with said cutting roller to'support and feed the web as said knife edgessuccessively cut the design, said platen and cutting roller being relatively adjustable to regulate the pressure at the cutting point.

7. The combination with a decorative design web printing roller, of a cutting roller driven in synchronism with said printing roller and having on its periphery a succession of separate cutting knife edges to approximately simultaneously form a line of cuts in the web corresponding to the design printing roller, said knife edges being disposed on the face side of the web, and a cutting platen cooperating with said knife edges on the rear side of the web.

8. The combination with a decorative design printing roller, of a cutting roller driven in synchronism with said printing roller and having on its periphery a succession' of separate cutting knife edges to zip-- proximately simultaneously form a line of cuts in the web corresponding to and in ad- Vance of the design printed by said printing roller, and a platen driven synchronously with said cutting roller to support and feed the web as said knife edges successively cut the design, said platen and cutting roller being independently adjustable toward and from each other. 10

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature,

in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM F. MARRESFORD; Witnesses:

J. S. WOOSTER,

G. N. KERR- 

